Street-car heater



(No Model.)

J. L. REINE.

STREET GAE EEETEE.` No. 362,928. Patented Mey 17, 1887.

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NITED STATES PATENT Fries.

JOHN L. DRINK, OF DUBUQUE, IOVA.

STREET-CAR HEATER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 362,928, dated May 17,1887.

Application filed September 1, 1856.

T0 @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, J oHN L. BRTNK, a resident of Dubuque, in the countyof Dubuque and State of Iowa, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Street-Oar Heaters 5 and I do hereby declare thefollowing to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention,such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it pertains tomake and use the same.

My invention relates to improvements in means for heating street-cars orother vehicles for the conveyance of passengers, its construction andoperation being fully described and explained in this specification, andshown in the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure lis a sideelevation of a car provided with my improved heater, a part of the sidewall of the car being broken away to show the construction andarrangement oi' the heater. Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical sectionofthe car through the line x x, Fig. l, the view being in the directionindicated by the arrow in Fig. l. Fig. 3 is an enlarged transverseseetion through the line y y, Fig. l, looking in the direction indicatedby the arrow in said ligure, the dellector V being removed to show theremaining parts; Fig. 4L, a horizontal section of one of the hoods II,fastened to the side wail of the car.

In the views, A is the side wall of a car or other vehicle. B is aseatresting against said wall, and B is the riser extending from the frontedge of the seat to the licor. In the space beneath the seat, andbetween the riser and the wall of the car, is placed the inelosingcaseof the heater, the entire case, as shown, being made up of liveparts-viz., a central distributing chamber, C, two combustionchambers,O', lying on opposite sides of the chamber O, and tworeceiving-chambers, O", occupying the extremities of the case. Thereceiving-chambers C are separated from the combustion-chamber O byvertical partitions a, and similar partitions, a, separate thecombustion-chambers from the distributingchamber C. Each of thereceiving-chambers O is connected with the distributing-chamber O by oneor more preferably horizontal fines, D, whose ends are set in thepartitions a" a", already mentioned, and suitable burners, I,

Serial No. 219,401. (No model.)

placed beneath the ilues and accessible from the outside of the car bymeans of doors K, afford a means of heating the lines and the air withinthem or passing through them.

Openings G in the side wall of the car admit air to the extreme ends ofthe receivingchamber C, the admission ol' air being l'acilitated andregulated by means hereinafter explained. The lower end of thereceivingchambcr O opens into a transverse conductor, E, lying under thefloor ofthe car, and a register, F, preferably at the center of the car,opens from the conductor and discharges warm air into the body of thecar.

Over each of the openings G in the side of the car is a reversible hood,II, hinged to the car by means ol'l staples s, or any equivalent device,each of the hoods consisting ol" a ean vas cover held in place by aseries of elastic ribs, h. These hoods are reversed with each reversalof the motion of the car, the mouth or opening of the hood being alwaysin the direction in which the car is ruiming, andthe office of the hoodsbeing to force air into the openings G, and thence through the heater.Vithin each receivi11g-chamber are two partial partitions, Z d', onerigidly attached to the lower wall of the chamber andthe other hinged tothe upper wall. The weight of the hinged partition or valve d holds itnormally vertical and at a considerable distance from the partition d;but when the car is running at a high speed, or when from any othercause the current of air passing through the heater is unusually strong,the valve el is swung inward toward the partition d, and thus partiallycuts off the current and lessens the supply of cold air.

In the distributing-chamber C is a dellector, V, consisting of twooblique plates, against which the heated air strikes as it comes fromthe flues D, and by means of which the aircurrent is deflected downwardto the conductor E. A pipe, L, carries the products of combustion fromeach of the chambers C to the open air, either through the side of thecar, as shown, or through the roof, and a pipe, M, placed in anyconvenient position, supplies fuel to the burners I, by means of whichthe chambers are heated.

I have found it advisable to protect the cai1n IOO B', or throughopenings N in the wall of the car.

The drawings show a car having the heater :o under one seat, but notunder the other; but it is evident that the arrangement shown on oneside of the car may be duplicated on the other. Where two heaters areused, the conductor E may be extended completely across the car andreceive hot air from both ends and discharge it at the center. I havefound it preferable, however, to use two separate conductors and tworegisters, in order to avoid interference of the two currents of hotair. For

2o use in nearly any location the heater shown 3o burners is in use, itis necessary to close the air-opening G leading to the unusedcombustion-chamber;` and this may be done by means of a slide, G',(shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1,) or by means of va hinged door orotherwise.

Having now described and explained my invention, what I claim as new,and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The combination, with a car and a seat therein, of a heater occupyingthe space be- 40 neath the seat and consisting of a combustion-chamberand air-'receiving and air-distributing chambers on opposite sides ofthecombustion-chamber, the air-receiving and air-distributing chambersbeing connected by one or more ilues passing through thecombustionchamber,the air-receiving chamber being provided with anopening for the admission of cold air, the combustion-chamber with asuitable burner or burners and an escape for the products of combustion,and the air-distributing chamber with an opening into the body of thecar.

2. The combination, with a car and a seat therein and a heater occupyingthe space beneaththe seat and consisting of an air-receiving-chamber, anair-distributing chamber, a combustion-chamber between the receiving anddistributing chambers, and one or more fluesconnecting the receiving anddistributing chambers and passing through the combustion-chamber, of atransverse conductor beneath the door of the car, opening at one endlfrom the distributing-chamber and at the other end into the body of thecar, said receiving-chamber being provided with.v an opening for theadmission of cold air and said combastion-chamber with a suitable burneror burners, and an escape for the products of combustion.

i 3. The combination, with a car, a heater above the floor of the car,and a conductor beneath the door and opening at one end from the heaterand at the other end into the body of the car, of an obliquedefiecting-plate adapted to receive the current of air from the heaterand deflect it downward into the conductor.

4. The combination, with a car 'and a heater Within the car andreceiving its cold-air supply vthrough an opening in the Wall of thecar, of a reversible hood adjacent to the cold-air opening and adaptedto deiiect into the opening the current of air formed by the motion ofthe car, the reversal of the hood with each reversal of the motion ofthe car rendering it equally operative whether the car moves in onedirection or the other.

5. The combination, with the car and the heater receiving its cold-airsupply through an l opening, G, in the wall of the car, of the hood H,pivoted to the car and consisting of a series of ribs, 7L, and aflexible cover, substantially as shown and described, and for thepurpose set forth. l

6. The combination, with the distributingchamber C, thecombustion-chamber C', and the receiving-chamber C, connected by flues Dwith the chamber C and receiving cold air through an opening at the endfarthest from said chamber, of the stationary partition d and fthehinged partition d', arranged within the receiving-chamber and adaptedto be deflected in proportion to the force of -the air-current enteringthe chamber, and when so deflected to proportionately decrease thevolume of said current, substantially as shown and described, and forthe purpose'set forth.

7.v The combination, with a car and a seat therein, of a heateroccupying the space beneath the seat and consisting of a centraldistributing-chamber, combustionchambers on opposite sides of saiddistributing-chamber, and receiving-chambers at vthe extremities of theheater, each of said receiving-chambers being connected with thedistributing-chamber by flues -passing through the correspondingcombustion-chamber, and the receiving-chambers being provided withopenings for the admission of cold air, the combustion-chambers withsuitable burners and escape-openings for the products of combustion, andthe distributing-chamber with an opening into the body of the car.

8. rllhe combination,with the car A and seat B, of the heater under theseat, consisting of the central chamber, C, duplicatecombustionchambers-C, and duplicate receiving-chambers C, connected withthe central chamber, C, by the ues D, the double deflector Vin thecentral chamber, and the conductor E, opening from the chamber C andinto the body of the car, substantially as and for'the purpose setforth.

9. Thecombination, with the ear A and the duplicate heater consistingofthe central cham IOO IIO

A. ber, C, the combustion-chambers C', andthe rethe heater and the seatand forming,` air-spaces, eeivng-ehambers G,supplied with airthroughsubstantially as and for the purpose set forth. openings G in the Wallof the cnr, of a recip- In testimony whereof I have signed this roeatingcover, G', fastened to the cur-Wall and specification in the presence oftwo subscrib- 5 adapted to close one of the openings G when ingwitnesses.

but one of the combustion-chambers is in use, substantially as and forthe purpose set forth.

10. The combination, with the om' A, the Vitnesses: seat B, and theheater arranged under the seat, CHARLES G. STEARNS, lo of one or moreshelves, b b', arranged between LUMAN F. BOWDISH.V

JOHN L. BRINK.

